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CVE-2017-17511

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-12-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-74

Description

KildClient 3.1.0 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to prefs.c and worldgui.c.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• Kildclient: 3.1.0

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00013.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17511
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00013.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17511

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